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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...an affordable housing scheme that workers and families can afford and that will enable councils and housing bodies to build homes that people can buy at or near the cost of construction, excluding the land-related costs. It will be open to those with a gross household income of up to €85,000. Therefore, people do not have to refuse work to stay below a social income threshold in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty. They cannot put the cattle out, and cattle would always have been out by April. According to Met Éireann, 2023 was the...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...not. Most recently, this was evident with the Green Paper on disability reform. My colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, and I met with a number of groups and individuals to discuss that, because people were very concerned about it. No one seemed to be consulted about the Green Paper; it simply landed on them without any prior warning or discussion. They have been worried about the...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...with Gresham House. I am dismayed by the Minister's answer that the deal has been done. This deal will see millions of euro in public funds used to subsidise the purchase of huge swathes of Irish land by a British investment company. The deal was not transparent and it has rightly been criticised by a broad cross-section of interested parties. Despite what the Minister is saying, it...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...proposals are inequitable. Much of the Government's climate action plan puts a burden on ordinary workers and families, particularly family farmers and rural communities. Those living in rural Ireland find it difficult, if not impossible, to access services, whether employment, education or retail, without using a private car. A large proportion of our greenhouse gas emissions can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams (15 Dec 2022)

Pauline Tully: ...no desire to chip away at the Britishness of my neighbours”. Mr. Adams also said, with regard to unionists: The protections in the Good Friday Agreement are their protections also. This is their land. This is their home place. Does Mr. Adams think the unionist people are hearing what nationalists are saying to them about guaranteeing their cultural and identity rights in a...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am very disappointed the Cabinet agreed earlier today to sign off on the national maternity hospital going ahead on non-publicly owned land. The question as to why the land could not be gifted to the State has never been answered. We have been told the 299-year lease at nominal rent is ownership in everything but name but why can it not just be signed off and given at a nominal fee in...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: ...Housing prices are continuing to rise and rents are rising in tandem, and both are happening due to the lack of housing supply. The solution is to invest in social and affordable housing on public land but successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael-led Governments have removed the ability of local government to build social housing. Now, the Government is exempting big developers from the...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: ...about some other aspects of it, as I will outline. For example, the affordable dwelling purchase arrangement in Part 2 of the Bill seeks to facilitate the building of affordable housing on land owned by local authorities. However, no additional funding was made available in budget 2021 to pay for affordable purchase homes, and only 90 affordable purchase homes are to be delivered in...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Pauline Tully: ...last week, but how many ceasefires have there been over the 54 years of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory? How long will this ceasefire last before Israel starts stealing Palestinian land again, while continuing to commit war crimes and forcing the Palestinian people to continue to live in absolutely dreadful conditions? A statement from the Government condemning...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Pauline Tully: While Sinn Féin supports this Bill there are aspects of it I am concerned about. A just transition must occur if this is to work. I live in the heart of rural Ireland and am very concerned about the effects that initiatives under this Bill are going to have or indeed are having on people living in rural Ireland and on the farming community in particular. The vast majority of people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Apr 2021)

Pauline Tully: .... There are virtually no properties available to rent privately and the few that are available are not affordable for most families, even with the housing assistance payment, if accepted by the landlords. This highlights the absolute need for social and affordable housing to be built. Cavan County Council had an opportunity recently to have 24 social houses constructed in Cootehill...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Pauline Tully: ...up work to care for a loved one and do not have the necessary credits. They do not qualify for a non-contributory State pension as they will be means tested and often, due to a partner's income or land, if living on a family farm, they will not receive it. After years of caring they are then told at pension age they do not qualify for a pension. This is an insult and is most hurtful. ...